skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone with asthma who has trouble breathing around cigarette smoke I agree it's nasty.
Is AI about to kill what's left of journalism?
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Another attribute/attribute extension that would be helpful is toxicity for pets in particular.
While those are some big hurdles, I still don't believe they should impede decent UX.

After spending years tweaking poor UXes and months building good ones, I really think good UX starts with a strong foundation.

If a stack starts out with integrity and grows to the appeal of enterprise clients, adding SOAP isn't suddenly going to transform it from a modern SPA to being a crappy session-state adled 2008 MVC experience.

If anything, with a good REST API, you can probably generate SOAP bindings rather easily.

Odoo is a great example of this. It supports enterprises globally yet the software is still rather robust by comparison to the market.
WebUI – lightweight WebView with Multi-language back end and full OS API access
I highly doubt "the sporadic" smoke helped anyone with weight. More and more sugar and other junk has been dumped into our food to make it tastier than the competition and society has taught us to "just grab something" rather than taking an hour and cooking a meal. We didn't get fat because we smoked less. I'm sure a few did but all evidence points at reduced exercise and more junk stuff into our mouth holes as the culprit.
A lie flies while the truth only crawls. Or maybe, a lie rides on horseback while the truth walks.
...and it compiled just fine, and ran fine on first launch. Excellent!
I imagine you’d spend a lot of time replicating stuff Android already does well. Like battery management, cell connection, mobile UI, touch event handling, so on and so forth.

I’d almost be inclined to counter with the opposite: what would be gained by going for just Linux over tailoring Android?
Got some sources to cite, or is this the typical apple fanboyism of "android bad"?

I've used android for years, never ran into any malware. I've also developed for android and ios. Writing malware is largely impossible due to the functional permission system, at least it's much, much harder than the other operating systems. Apple just pretends it's immune to malware because of the manual reviews and static analysis performed by the store. It's also why they're terrified of letting people ship their own interpreters like javascript engines.
Fair use in copyright:

it is permissible to use limited portions of a work including quotes, for purposes such as commentary, criticism, news reporting, and scholarly reports.

But yes, open to interpretation as far as where LLM training falls.
Gnu parallel ftw, it’s the single easiest way to speed up command line batches.
Adventures into the Anthropecene. Being a person who wasn't caught up, this was a relatable travel-wandering book
Discussion [0] (50 points, 21 hours ago, 11 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40267446
I've noticed a lot of in-depth content on the mechanisms of LLMs themselves, but not nearly as much tactical advice for how to plan, ship, and iterate on differentiated features - especially outside of the world of general prompt engineering techniques. Would love to hear from folks who have other preciously won nuggets of wisdom!
Scrivener has an interesting pattern where they offer 30 day trial - but they only count the days you use the software.

So if you first play with interface for few days, but end up not attempting to write more of your great next novel for two months because you were swamped with real life, you can come back and there's still most of the trial left.
I was just discussing the whole Zyn craze that’s going with some friends, and it’s amazing to see in real time how it’s becoming so popular. It’s something I have absolutely no desire to try, but looks like influencers, unfortunately, have a lot of pull nowadays. Big names are getting paid to do some product placements, which eventually makes the younger people to get on board with it.

Kids want to try new things, but the only “new things” we’ve come up with in the recent years are reintroduction of sports gambling, vaping, nicotine gums and new flavour of social media websites that tend to be more addictive.
Yet again, we see a recurring pattern of bad news being dropped during the market hours, causing cryptocurrencies and crypto-related stocks to fall. This bias of bad news being released during market hours makes shorting Bitcoin profitable when limited to market hours, in part due to this negative news bias. Being short means you can profit from the sudden plunge in the price when bad news is dropped.
If you empty that compressed gas, it cools everything it comes in contact with. Room temperature gas still has a lot of thermal energy.

The effect the prior poster was discussing is most apparent at large scales when someone is doing actual efficiency analysis - compressed air is not a very efficient way of storing or transporting energy in most contexts. No one would use compressed air for a power grid, because it would quickly be apparent how terrible it is.

It is however a great way to transfer and use energy in many industrial contexts, as turbines and pistons using high pressure compressed air can be very compact while also being very powerful, and have built in cooling.

At the level of typical household use, the efficiency effects aren’t notable. No one is going to care or even notice if it cost 1/2 cent of electricity (at the compressor) to use that air impact wrench vs 1/10th of a cent to use an electric one. Especially when the electric one is heavier and has less torque.
I didn't suggest behaviour it was exclusive to gov system - it's boring self interest calculus - US simply had 50 years of global hegemony head start and played the game better as strongest player coming out of WW2 relatively unscathed, so much so that they're in backyards of everyone, and not everyone wants status quo of such arrangement. When has political alternatives succeeded in displacing autocracies/authoritarians? Typically autocrats get replaced by other autocrats. Also plenty of failed liberalizing movements that reverted back to autocratic rule.

Getting autocratic systems to liberalize generally requires generations of proactive elite capture and shaping by active US influence/intervention, and condition enabling that is recovering from being wrecked post war where superior power can insert itself into local political structures to regime change (be it US or USSR). The biggest threat is physical attack followed political change compelled from external influence.

Political alternatives are easy to crush during peace time if state remotely competent, limit domestic sources of LIO influence, i.e. ban western NGOs. Flip statement around, what is biggest threat to liberal democracies? Autocracies that simply exist fine + liberal democracies that don't. Hence LIO interest trying to undermine autocracies. Many PRC nationals in west / naturalized citizens of LIO countries who experience dysfunction of "alternative" and conclude, no thanks.
>Your first comment was arguing "tracking doesn't exist in the EU, because we have regulations for it"

It was not. It is false generalization of my words.

>those aware of tracking might end up getting a lot of their data collected via those that are not

We all leave pretty big footprint both online and offline, very often through a consented and legitimate process. It is a simple matter of data hygiene to make most of that footprint just useless pile of bits if you control the narrative and spread of information is constrained. Who cares if one of my phone numbers landed in a public database because I registered a company many years ago? I wrote a lot on this forum — do you think you can build a precise portrait of me with this, that or some other data? Do you really believe one can use it against me in a way I would not expect? A while ago I was working on a data mining project for some Western government, an information warfare they used to shape public opinion globally. I know quite well what data can be extracted, especially with modern technology. Without privacy laws there exists asymmetry between data industry and individuals, but the balance is shifting to the point, where you can actually manage what others know about you.
A large amount of the code is the C boilerplate for implementing the object graph needed by audio system. You'll see that basically every function is a huge switch-case.
Nice little tool, maybe you can add a "shorten url" button using a third party service. People who want max privacy don't need to shorten it.
There is a reputation of Apple being more secure, but it's largely unfounded. It just looks that way because the ecosystem is completely locked down and software isn't allowed to exist without apple's stamp of approval.
> As an outside observer, it seems reasonable to assume asveikau missed the figurative language.

No, I didn't miss it at all, and this is a weird take.

However, its appropriateness as a metaphor does have to do with the literal meaning. Even a less maintained software project with a longer-term deprecation roadmap that still has millions relying on it is not "dead". This very article is talking about how the *BSDs are putting more maintenance into that tree than upstream, and those are actually signs it isn't a total dead-end; they've done that maintenance over the years because it's valuable to them. But bitwize was calling it dead in an attempt to put it down. I've found this particular brand of negativity is very common in Wayland enthusiasts. It is like ad hominem in software maintenance discussion. The source is available for anyone to hack on and use, or not, as they please. There's no sense in ad hominem attacks, exactly as bitwize engages in above, for that.

To be honest, the attacks like this remind me of the XZ backdoor. The sock puppets in those mailing list threads complaining, I would say whining, about "dead", "unmaintained" libzma were channeling the exact same energy. Cool it down. It's not necessary.
And if the user indefinitely uses the service within the free tier, they are not the target customer anyway - so count the infinitesimal usage as evangelization !
> I would hope that when a software dev sees a widget that says "these are your recovery codes, write them down or copy them to a secure location or you may lose access to your account", they do exactly that.

Yes software developers are known for never making any mistake.
My understanding of WarpStream's approach is that it's fundamentally different from tiering: at a basic level, it's a system that accumulates and persists (to S3) batches of messages before sending produce-acknowledged responses to clients. This means that there's no "tier" of storage before S3.

On top of that, the WarpStream folks have layered extensive mitigations for the worst-case latency costs of the producer-blocking batch-and-ship approach, as well as a fairly sophisticated system to make consumers consistently quick via online continuous storage rewriting, prefetching, and data movement between broker nodes (if you squint at it, this system looks a lot like the familiar index+buffer cache design).

Unaffiliated, just an expert in the space who likes reading WarpStream's blog.
This thread reminds me that it's funny how some people react strongly towards tobacco smoke, but not ICE exhausts, the dominating smell of late modern cities.
What vendor and model water heater did you get? Useful smart features are of the variety that the manufacturer would never enable off the shelf, such as monitoring magnesium anode deterioration so that it could notify a user when it is time to replace the anode. It's against the interests of the manufacturer because replacing the anode extends the life of the heater.
Belgium's ports: Chinese electric cars: 'parked here for a year, sometimes more'
It's hundreds of milliseconds to do a a million iterations. A single time check is hundreds of nanoseconds.
Are there autopilot systems that do any sort of drone, bird, or other aerial object avoidance?

Then, aren't regional cultural ethics necessary to solve a trolley problem; when there are multiple simultaneous predictable accidents and you can only prevent one.

Does "autopilot" solve the trolley problem for the liable pilot?
When to choose the freemium pricing model as solo founder
The defense contractor space is entirely made of players who make big promises, then get under contract to deliver something just functional enough to get follow-on funding to “make it operational this time.”

With the right connections, it’s extremely possible to fail upward on this track.
Agreed, same reason the Monaspace font 1.1 release made news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40267120
A lot of multiple thousand dollars per seat software will offer evaluation licenses, for various lengths of time, sometimes way longer than 30 days.
Maybe Japan and the Japanese have some different values than our fast charging Western world?

Let me introduce the Shokunin (translated as Artisan, when you look it up on Wikipedia, which isn't quite right).

What a Shokunin produces is, sort of, the antithesis of what you can order from Temu.

A rather interesting blog post[0] explaining the concept:

"Shokunin is more than just a craftsperson or artisan. It represents the devotion and lifelong commitment of craftsmen who dedicate themselves to perfecting their art. They embody the values of dedication to craft, excellence in craftsmanship, and masterful work. Shokunin believe in meticulous attention to detail and uphold the highest standards of quality and skill in their work."

For us Westerners it's not fathomable to work 20 years, or a lifetime, ro achieve a perfect product. Who's to say that this concept is wrong?

And I think it has a lot to do with a society who believes that a 1000 year old company is not only desirable but a virtue.

[0] https://tobyleon.com/blogs/art-design/shokunin-japan-artisan...
In this context it is worthy to cite Article III of the genocide convention (which directly follows the above definition in Article II):

> The following acts shall be punishable:

>

> (a) Genocide;

> (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide;

> (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;

> (d) Attempt to commit genocide;

> (e) Complicity in genocide.

Bezalel Smotrich is deffinetly guilty of (c) here, “Direct and public incitement to commit genocide”, but being a member of the Israeli government which is plausibly guilty of (a), a government who’s several members are also guilty of (c), including the Prime Minister himself. it is very likely—though we don’t know this yet—that he, other Israeli officials, and generals in the Israeli military, are also guilty of (b) “Conspiracy to commit genocide”.

Even in the most charitable interpretations of Smotrich’s words, he, and other members of the Israeli governments, are plausibly guilty of (e) “Complicity in genocide” as Israel has a duty to protect Palestinians from Genocide, but still allowing genocidal actions to unfold in Gaza, while not punishing offenders, nor even stepping down their rhetoric.
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I'm surprised there aren't LAN-over-powerline devices that do outlet switching. I run a large portion of my local ethernet through my home's powerlines and it works really, really well. My desktop can saturate my internet connection running on one of these things. I think there are five or six devices on the wired LAN that run like that.
> An AI being able to consistently outperform us in recalling the syntax for switch statements, is a world away from "all of our basic needs being taken care of by automation". The former is going to take a few more weeks/months, while the latter is going to take a few more decades/centuries.

Well then that may just refute your claim that the profession would become defunct by 2040...
> What is the relation between "start with why" and "databases are becoming a commodity"?

My assumption is that the author is painting out a longer-term vision both for Confluent and its audience.

It probably makes more sense in the context of other posts, e.g.

> This trend towards object storage is not just happening at Confluent but across the data ecosystem. Many different types of cloud data systems are integrating object storage into their architecture, and I have covered a few of these such as Neon and ClickHouse Cloud. There is also a flurry of start-ups doing logs (such as the Kafka API) over object storage directly (six and counting). There is money being plowed into data systems that use object storage as the primary, and sometimes, only storage layer.

https://jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2024/5/2/hybrid-transaction...

In other words: managed Kafka is becoming a commodity and Confluent should "start with why" to figure out where to go. I figured the advice and perspective is of general enough interest.
> You’re posting on a site where many people think that for-profit employment will be replaced with UBI in the sense of a stipend which will free most people up to pursue their dreams and desires

Sure, but until you actually see evidence that this will become a reality instead of a pipe dream, you should be planning accordingly, right?

Even the most UBI optimistic people should expect there to be a very painful period of time where things are being automated and people are unemployed en masse which could last a long time before any kind of UBI is enacted
For the coffee maker, maybe being able to set a schedule to brew in the morning.

For a water heater, participating in a utility program where they modify your temperature sweeping in exchange for a reduced rate or similar incentive.

Those are the first reasons I can think of.
>It's easy to check BLS inflation against old ads for goods and see that BLS inflation is pretty spot on. I've yet to meet someone claiming "massive understated inflation" that has done this simple check honestly.

When property values blow up 50% in a year or two and people pay $20k+ over sticker for cars, it's not "supply chain issues" nor 8% inflation dude. I have looked at old ads for stuff, and the difference is that now the same goods are manufactured for 1/10th the cost overseas and somehow cost way more anyway or at best roughly the same price as before. The BLS has a very complex scheme for understating inflation that involves substitutions, hypothetical costs, and other gimmicks. It wasn't always so fishy but the change was made to make the economy look better. I could argue with you at length about details but I can tell it will not be productive.

>As to the claim that "fiat currencies are fleeting," it is a fact every country of 200+ has one, so it's safer to say every non-fiat currency has failed.

Gold and silver are valuable everywhere and have been since they were first discovered many thousands of years ago. So your claim is utterly false. Every fiat currency that has existed has gone to zero, as well as any that were based on claims of redeemability.

>See a list of severity and frequency of US recessions, or study the Great Moderation, or simply look at the volatility of gold prices, to see how unstable non-fiat pricing is.

Gold prices are only volatile in terms of dollars, due to speculation in the futures market. The banks and governments play games with gold prices to discourage investors from seeking it. There are some cyclical or geopolitical factors in it too. But as JP Morgan said, "Gold is money. Everything else is credit." It can be manipulated but not nearly as much as fiat.
The way I see it, it’s a matter of creating suitable environments for humans in space. For the most part, that’s perfectly achievable even with current technology; the primary bottleneck is quantity of building materials, as human-friendly habitats are by necessity large and complex (space for centrifugal gravity, plus room to move around for mental health, plus space for all the requisite air process facilities and such).

So this is another area where bringing down cost of pound to orbit is highly impactful. If that becomes cheap, it becomes feasible to build in orbit crafts (orbital stations, ships, etc) sufficiently large to support human-friendly habitats. Should Starship+Superheavy succeed, it will be a significant step forward in this regard since it can put the interior volume of the ISS in orbit in a single launch, and perhaps in a few decades use of resources mined from asteroids could become a consideration.
On the bright side Uber now has the right country set for you. I signed up in Belgium and Uber is now convinced that's where I am based for all of time.
the article doesn't mention how heat is stored, it just says "the system extracts heat from the air and stores it above ground for reuse".

do you know how they do it?
They have other products that are very real AFAICT. Reusable loitering munitions and air combat drones.
Well, I sell a website analytics platform, so 14 days are needed for you to gather data and get meaningful insights. Even if you forget about it, and come later, you can still see the data and test the features.

Also, the app is self-hosted, so part of the trial benefit is that users can test the installation process, which is usually the biggest push-back against self-hosting.
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Your example just demonstrates the usefulness of a time-based trial. You personally might not come back but the next customer might.

I know everyone complains about Adobe's switch to subscription, but it would fit the model you'd want where you could pay for a month of usage and then turn it back off.
As other have noted, it's 20mph, which is pretty common in cities in the UK. In that example even the more major road with two way traffic and a seperated bike lane is 20mph.

30mph is more common in towns.

You might see 40mph if going through a rural village.

50mph isn't too common, but you sometimes see it on smaller or busier major road (A roads).

60mph is the "national" speed limit for major roads and rural roads for cars. Some of these are narrow and twisty, so 60mph should be seen as a maximum, not a recommendation of how fast to actually go. For example, this road in Cornwall[0] would be under national speed limit of 60mph, but you'd have to be insane to drive at that speed. The national speed limit is actually lower for vehicles over 3 tonnes or towing (50mph) or heavy good vehicles and busses (40mph), which is why the signpost for national speed is a white circle with a black cross through it rather than a number.

You'll be 70mph on most motoways (highways) and for cars on national speed limit roads with a central reservation.

[0] https://maps.app.goo.gl/9Tw4fkxviXbN2Fxy9
While I don't doubt that there's a slight temporary productivity boost, I doubt it outweighs:

1) Lost years of productivity as people die early from lung cancer (my smoker granddad ended his career early because of it, a challenging maritime career that as I understand it has an increasing shortage of workers).

2) Healthcare resources being directed towards diseases directly caused by smoking. Tax money and individual money that could've been productively invested elsewhere, plus the working hours of healthcare professionals (another field with a shortage).